#ace

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #contribute #contributing #could #i

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#book #catch #down #i #just

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. ↗

— Les Brown

#after #amaze #determination #gifts #go

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#afraid #else #king #play #played

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented. ↗

— Julie Brown

#being funny #demented #face #figure #funny

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire. ↗

— Larry Brown

#fire #firefighter #honorable #life #live

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places. ↗

— Louise Brown

#been #books #cumulative #hearing #importance

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it. ↗

— Steve Brown

#corporate #creative #experiment #get #gives

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. ↗

— Tina Brown

#essays #i #i love #kind #love

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign